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This is not a lovely subject, cremation, but I must address one aspect of it. If you’re ordering cremation for a loved one or for yourself after you die, you may want to ask that a cotton cloth covers or shrouds the body, not plastic (as seen in the photo above).

    I was invited recently to see the waiting area before the body is cremated, and I viewed how one body was covered with plastic that was in several large broken pieces, and (to me), the indignity of that.

    What difference, you ask, since it’s all burned up?

    The covering by a clean cotton cloth, well, it seems to me,    at least adds a sense of decorum and dignity. And in Hawaii, I hear, this has to be requested or ordered. Otherwise, by default, it’s plastic.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud

    (I was reminded of the sensitive treatment of the body after death in the Academy Award winning movie, Departures, which harked me back to the need for the women at the cross to take care of the body of Jesus after he was brought down from the cross.)

    You may want to pass this word along.